Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-06-25

INFORMATION FOR THOSE WISHING
TO LEARN SlEiGHT or HAND.

4 Reporters Cha With = Modern Magi-
eias-0utat Needed by AN Amateur
conJurer-Deeds Of Disbierie-severai
Nev Tricks.
Militiaman John A. Schultz, the genial
conjurer OF the Eighth regiment, had just
produced the pleasing illusion that the re-
porter's hal was a savings bank by appar-
entity abstracting from the lining several
crisp bank notes, half q dozen IS gold
pieces, and a quantity Of silver dimes and
quarters, when the reporter seized the op-
portunity and fred questions straight at
him without any delay whatever.
.'well,r said Militiaman Schultz, with
. smile, las magicians are good people TO
have around, and as the more good people
there are around in the world the better
Il will become, I don't mind giving you
the secret that will increase u number.
The first Tip is to go straight 70 some good
magician and take lessons in the art direct
from him. Books of instructions are use
full only after the first principles Of the
art are mastered.
"When you can palm and pass things
20 that you can fool all the smart small
boy and all the smarte grown up folks in
your house and in the family next door,
you're ready to go ahead in your career
~ a professional deceiver Of your fellow
man. The next step in that career is to
get magical apparatus. That's the way
globes OF gold fishes and dishes Of blazing
oil and other startling things are pro.
duced from empty pocket handkerchiefs.
II was by mechanical devices that Robert
Heller was able 10 take out Of a mans hat
q cart load Of fruit jars, piles OF tea
caddies, innumerable lighted Chinese
lanterns, about q ton Of rubber balls and
wooden blocks, a wardrobe OF clothes, a
pyramid Of dishes, and finally the bright
little girl who used TO run down laughing
to q seat among the spectators. When it
comes to the apparatus you can go it
economically, or you can revel in the
iuxuriant expenditure of q prolific income.
Magical outfits range In cost all the way
from 500 up into the thousands. A good
amateur, unless he wants to confine him
self exclusively to card tricks, can't pos
sibly get along in a parlor entertainment
without a center table. These range in
cost from about SOS to $500. according to
finish and the number of traps and things
intended to produce the startling effects
that demonstrate to your smart spectator
that Ne isn't as smart as he thinks he Is.
OTHER SEEDED ARTICLES.
"After you get your table the rest of
your outlay IS for mechanical tricks, the
first thing, If course, to procure being
your c~onjurer's wand and a trick tube
pistol, into which you can load things
that you have smashed 20 flinders and
want to reproduce whole. There are sew
eral kinds Of wands. One sort will float
In the air, another you can make disap-
pear down your throat, and another will
fish SILVER half dollars from the empty air
for you. Then you will want glass boxes
that look empty until you wantt them to
be full of curious things; card cases for
making cards disappear, and to cut up
other queer antics with; the h~exhaustible
bottle, a time honored chestnut of a trick,
hut perennially interesting to the chill
dren-magic bird cages, money chests,
and lots Of other paraphernalia. In all
there are over 200 pieces Of apparatus for
standard tricks, from the simple tiny rub
Der bottle that hobs up persistently until
the conjurer tells 1t to lie down, TO the ap-
paratus that will enable you to safely cut
on the head Of your best friend among
the spectators"
Nilitiaman Schultz stopped for breath
when he had piled all this mystic lore
upon the reporters head, and gave the
scribe q chance to talk on his own account.
.'Tremendousl'' the reporter said, '.and
what did you say 1t would cost TO learn it
allY''
II didn't say yet" retorted the militia
man, who can do over 800 strange, be-
wildering and incomprehensible deeds of
diablerie-"I didn't say yet, but I'm
going TO tell ydo now. You or anybody
else can learn TO become a magician of
varying excellence by paying from $25 to
$500 to any one of the pupils whom Herr.
mar or Heller has kindly taught. For
e2J you can learn q select few good tricks,
but for $500 probably, or 5000 at the out
side, you can get q training that will enable
you 70 do everything that anybody who
doesn't want the earth would care TO per-
form.
1.-The conjurer must be q good talker
and q funny one at that. BY saying
funny things and being perfectly cool at
all times he can travel smoothly along
with every trick. Il IL necessary I'm a
great many good tricks 20 talk away at
the spectators to give them the impression
that you are explaining what you are
going to do, when in reality you only
want TO mislead them. The man who
tagSs well and entertainingly can accom-
plish his purpose readily. Who ever saw
Heller, for instance, was delighted as
much by his bright talk almost as by the
tricks he did. II a trick is successfully
performed the wise conjurer win not re-
peat II again that night. The wise con
jnrer viii also keep his spectators some
distance from his conjuring tables, and,
above all, II he blunders he viii never
allow the blunder TO confuse him, but
will cleverly pretend that IL was an effect
that he purposely intended TO produce.
The conjurer can never afford to be In too
much Of a hurry either. He wants 10 be
dead sure that he is going ahead with GER
tainty. Magic, in short, is one OF those
things in which you have to hasten
slowly"
A FEW NEW TRICKS.
Militiaman Schultz paused again, and,
borrowing the reporters lead pencil,
kindly pulled two Reina Victoria cigars
out Of the end Of IL, and presenting one TO
the writer, lit the other himself. Then
he pulled yards Of tape cut Of the sharp
ened end Of the pencil and n poker deck
ont OF the side, and sat down laughing.
by the way, the reporter asked when
the pencil was returned uninjured,
s'what's new in magic, anyhow"
'fThis,' replied the mystic subordinate
Of Col Scott. There was a buzzing sound
IN the magician's scarf, and the gold
monkey head chartered its teeth and
rolled It's diamond eyes at the reporter I'm
q most remarkable manner.
Another new trick" continued the
uilitiaman, lis what Is called the mes